Wednesday June 11, 2025
PhysOrg —
Bodies piled up against the edge of the pen, skin flaking off, pink flesh to the sky. From above, a glut of dead fish ripples in time with the waves.
This is the scene of a marine horror film—each body an expired Atlantic salmon.
It was filmed in Tasmania’s D’Entrecasteaux Channel by the Bob Brown Foundation, an environmental advocacy group.
It’s here that salmon are enclosed within gigantic steel pens—farms for major aquaculture corporations Tassal and Huon.
“We put the drone up and we just came across pens with hundreds and hundreds of fish floating on the top,” says Alistair Allan, an Antarctic and marine campaigner with the Foundation.